UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY, THE VALIDATION OF THE III UNIVERSITY CONGRESS AND AN OBLIGATORY REFERENCE TO RODRIGO FACIO

Abstract

The III Congress University is a result of a vigorous movement to defend university autonomy. It was developed at the University of Costa Rica, at the beginning of the decade of the 70s of the 20th Century, with the participation of strata:  teachers, student and administrative, of all ideological expressions and the diverse generations present at the
only University at that time. Also, it is supported that the results embodied in the Organic Statute, were advanced for the time and remain in force. In this context, it must be the memory of Rodrigo Facio´s contribution as an important precedent in the forging of university autonomy in Costa Rica.